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Platform Engineer - Vice President

Citi

Citi

Software Engineering
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Posted on Oct 16, 2025

The CTS Enterprise Analytics Services (EAS) organization is actively recruiting for a strong Platform Engineer to work on a broad spectrum of engineering initiatives. EAS organization is driving enterprise-wide strategy of engineering and managing best in class data and analytics services including Big Data platforms, Spark services, AI & ML services, etc. The role requires a thought leader who can perform hands on work in partnership with key stakeholders, architects, engineers, data scientist and devops teams to engineer and deliver highly resilient solutions.

Responsibilities:

  • Assess the current landscape and book of work, and partner with various teams to identify key areas for infrastructure automations, configuration management, monitoring, alerting, etc.
  • Continuously work on designing and improving processes of detecting and responding to production service outages and build preventive solutions.
  • Act as the subject matter expert in Site Reliability Engineering to help drive engineering vision set by EAS stakeholders.
  • Produce availability and performance metrics for services and deliver processes to improve on major KPIs.
  • Operationalize highly available services deployed across multi-region and multi-data center environments.
  • Handle outages, perform root cause analysis, and provide architectural and engineering recommendations.
  • Build internal knowledge base to educate partners and support teams.

Skills:

  • Proven track record of system design experience with highly available platforms and services supporting various types of workloads.
  • Experience in designing fail-over processes and solutions.
  • Strong scripting skills – shell scripts, Python, Perl, etc.
  • Experience with virtualization, containerization, and cloud technologies – Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud Service Providers e.g. GCP, AWS, etc.
  • Analytical thinker able to assess various aspects to methodically arrive at a solution.
  • Hands on experience in gathering performance metrics, troubleshooting, tuning, monitoring, etc.
  • Experience with monitoring and logging solutions and frameworks e.g. OTEL, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Splunk, etc.
  • Hands on work on installing, configuring and troubleshooting Linux based environments.
  • Experience in IaC and CI/CD tooling e.g. Terraform, Jenkins, Harness, etc.
  • Strong knowledge of configuration management tools e.g. Ansible and/or Chef.
  • Familiarity with GPU management in virtualized enterprise environments.
  • Good understanding of security concepts and best practices.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Good team player interested in sharing knowledge and cross-training other team members and shows interest in learning new technologies and products.
  • Ability to work in a matrixed environment and follow procedures, processes and policies.
  • Experience managing vendor interactions for troubleshooting sessions, enhancement requests, and guiding vendor roadmaps to meet Citi standards and functional requirements.

Self-starter who works with minimal supervision and can work in a team of diverse skills and geographies.

Skills:

  • Proven track record of designing and supporting highly available platforms and services supporting various types of workloads.
  • Experience in designing fail-over processes and solutions.
  • Strong scripting skills – shell scripts, Python, Perl, etc.
  • Experience with virtualization, containerization, and cloud service providers – VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, etc.
  • Analytical thinker able to assess various aspects of a work item to methodically arrive at a solution.
  • Individual with hands on experience in gathering performance metrics, troubleshooting, tuning, monitoring, etc.
  • Hands on work on installing, configuring and troubleshooting Linux based environments.
  • Expertise with infrastructure automation, build, and deployment technologies for IaC and CI/CD e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Harness, ArgoCD, etc.
  • Good understanding of security concepts and best practices.
  • Strong experience with logging, monitoring, tracing, and visualization stacks e.g. ELK, Splunk, Grafana, etc.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Good team player interested in sharing knowledge and cross-training other team members and shows interest in learning new technologies and products.
  • Experience managing vendor interactions for troubleshooting sessions, enhancement requests, and guiding vendor roadmaps to meet Citi standards and functional requirements.
  • Self-starter who works with minimal supervision and is able to work in a team of diverse skills and geographies.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Systems & Engineering

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Time Type:

Full time

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